Special Diets

Spud Sunday: Boozy Spuds

Potatoes cooked with leeks and white wine – just the thing to give January a little boost

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Spud Sunday: A Resolutionary Soup

A simple white winter vegetable soup with potatoes, celeriac, cauliflower and roasted garlic – just the recipe for this time of year


Danish Cookies, Irish Butter

Butter cookies, a recipe made with Kerrygold Irish butter and inspired by the Danish butter cookies of Christmas past


Tales Of Wales

My recent visit to Wales taught me a lot about Welsh food: this recipe for Welsh cakes is one small (but lovely) part of that


Spud Sunday: Searching For Breakfast

While it’s neither a rösti nor a Spanish omelette, my latest potato pancake has elements of both, as well as a lot of Indian flavour


Spud Sunday: The Why Of Cookbooks

In which I give a recipe for potato, cheese & mushroom pie from the new Pieminister cookbook a whirl, but not without making a few changes and having a few things to say on the subject of cookbooks first


Spud Sunday: Food, The West Cork Way

As part of the new West Cork Food initiative, I got to fillet & smoke fish with the fabulous Sally Barnes; back at home, I made this potato and lentil stew to go with it


Spud Sunday: Meet The Peppers

Roasted potatoes with a bit of middle eastern flavour, adapted from Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipe for batata harra